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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 11, 2012
Filed:
Nov. 06, 2007
Mohamed Karroumi, Rennes, FR;
Stephane Onno, Saint Gregoire, FR;
Alain Durand, Rennes, FR;
Thomson Licensing, Issy-les-Moulineaux, FR;
Abstract
The present invention concerns a method and a device for encrypting an encoded scalable enhancement frame sent by an emitter to a receiver, the enhancement frame comprising a plurality of complementary streams ordered in term of quality level, each complementary stream corresponding to a combination of more than one scalability type, where a complementary stream of a lower quality level corresponds to a lower quality on each scalability type, comprising at the level of the emitter the steps of generating a key per complementary stream for encrypting said complementary stream in such a way that all scalability types can be either simultaneously or individually used, said keys being generated in such a way that only the keys of the complementary streams of quality levels lower than the quality level of a complementary stream can be obtained from the key of said complementary stream, and sending the key of a complementary stream corresponding to a required quality level to the receiver, the key permitting a receiver to generate the keys of the complementary streams of the lower quality levels only. The present invention also concerns a method and a device for decrypting a received encoded scalable enhancement frame.